Mar 8th, 2010 · Charisa Coulter was taken from her jail cell to the airport by U.S. Embassy staff more than a month after she and nine other Americans were arrested for trying to take 33 children out of Haiti after the earthquake. The leader of the Idaho-based missionaries was still being held.
Feb 7th, 2010 · Birthright is the dramatic 18th-century story of the kidnapping of 12-year-old British aristocrat James Annesley, whose story inspired Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure tale, Kidnapped. Host Liane Hansen speaks with award-winning author A. Roger Ekirch about Birthright: The True Story that Inspired Kidnapped.
Sep 13th, 2006 · Actor Jeremy Sisto, best known for his role as Billy on HBO's Six Feet Under, is now starring in the new series Kidnapped on NBC. It premieres next Wednesday.
Feb 6th, 2006 · Kidnapping for ransom has quickly become a multi-million-dollar business for armed gangs roaming the slums of Haiti's capital city, Port-au-Prince. After being released, many kidnapping victims leave the country -- but one former victim, a local disc jockey, has decided to stay. Using his on-air personality the "Haitian Hillbilly," he uses his music -- and his kidnapping experience -- to reach out to fellow Haitians.
Feb 2nd, 2006 · The bodies of 16 men are discovered in Baghdad Thursday, while an average of 50 bodies riddled with bullets show up at Baghdad's main morgue every day. Staggering statistics mark the Iraq conflict: the growing numbers of kidnappings, murders and bombings that mark day-to-day life in the country.
Jan 28th, 2006 · Al Jazeera airs a video, dated Jan. 21, of four Western peace activists who were kidnapped in Iraq in November. With the tape comes a threat to kill the four if all Iraqi prisoners are not freed.
Jan 26th, 2006 · The U.S. military has freed five female Iraqi prisoners, saying there is no connection to their release and negotiations to free kidnapped journalist Jill Carroll, who demanded the women be removed from custody. Madeleine Brand talks with Washington Post reporter Jonathan Finer about how the prisoners' release might affect Carroll's fate.
Jan 25th, 2006 · While reporting on the torture scandal at the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, Jackie Spinner was nearly kidnapped. Shaken by the experience, the Washington Post journalist returned to work, spending a total of nine months in Iraq.